"Staysail" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... We are just nearing the end of our long cruise. Rain, calms, squalls, bang - there's the foretopmast gone; rain, calm, squalls, away with the staysail; more rain, more calm, more squalls; a prodigious heavy sea all the time, and the EQUATOR staggering and hovering like a swallow in a storm; and the cabin, a great square, crowded with wet human beings, and the rain avalanching on the deck, and the leaks dripping everywhere: Fanny, in the ...
— Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson - Volume 2 • Robert Louis Stevenson
... blowing of a trumpet by one of their number, Neptune appeared inquiring the name of the ship, where she was bound, etc., and announced that he would like to pay her a visit. Before his apparent arrival a staysail had been fastened to the rigging and filled with water. A bucket had been filled with a mixture of lamp black and grease with a few other combinations, while a razor, a foot or more in length, had been made by the carpenter. ...
— Cape Cod and All the Pilgrim Land, June 1922, Volume 6, Number 4 • Various
... took all the wind out of the fore-staysail of the steamship, which went blind, but the schooner-sail still kept full, and ...
— The Jungle Fugitives • Edward S. Ellis |
